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GSA Newsroom
March 2022
Rendezvous at the Geologic Crossroads
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America’s Cordilleran Section and Rocky Mountain Section will host a join...
GSA Newsroom
March 2022
Geology Has No Borders
Boulder, Colo., USA: The 2022 Geological Society of America South-Central Section Meeting will be hosted online on 14–15...
GSA Newsroom
March 2022
New Geology Articles Published Online Ahead of Print in February
Boulder, Colo., USA: Article topics and locations include the Coriolis effect; insights from iron isotopes; ocean paleot...
GSA Newsroom
March 2022
New Articles for Geosphere Posted Online in February
Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Topics include using the...
GSA Newsroom
March 2022
New GSA Bulletin Articles Published Ahead of Print in January and February
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America regularly publishes articles online ahead of print. GSA Bulletin...
GSA Newsroom
March 2022
Nealtican lava flow field, Popocatépetl volcano: A window to the past and future hazards
For Immediate Release 3 March 2022 GSA Release No. 22-08
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 3
The Mw 5.1, 9 August 2020, Sparta Earthquake, North Carolina: The First Documented Seismic Surface Rupture in the Eastern United States
At 8:07 a.m. EDT on 9 Aug. 2020 a Mw 5.1 earthquake located ~3 km south of Sparta, North Carolina, USA, shook much of th...
FY22: Less than expected increases for science
By Morgan Disbrow-Monz, GSA Science Policy Fellow...
GSA Newsroom
February 2022
Secondary cratering on Earth: The Wyoming impact crater field
Boulder, Colo., USA: Several dozen small impact craters, 10–70-m in size, have been discovered in southeastern Wyoming....
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 2
Analysis of Skills Sought by Employers of Bachelors-Level Geoscientists
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 2
Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Faculty Experiences Can Prepare Us for Future System-Wide Disruption
Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 2
Continental Magmatism and Uplift as the Primary Driver for First-Order Oceanic ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr Variability with Implications for Global Climate and Atmospheric Oxygenation
Oceans cover 70% of Earth’s surface, setting it apart from the other terrestrial planets in the solar system, but the me...
GSA Newsroom
February 2022
New Articles for Geosphere Posted Online in January
Boulder, Colo., USA: GSA’s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Topics include Farallon p...
GSA Newsroom
January 2022
2020 Volcanic Eruption Leads to Hours-Long Thunderstorm
Boulder, Colo., USA: A study conducted by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
GSA Newsroom
January 2022
New GSA Bulletin Articles Published Ahead of Print in December
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America regularly publishes articles online ahead of print. GSA Bulletin...
GSA Newsroom
January 2022
New Geology Articles Published Online Ahead of Print in December
Boulder, Colo., USA: Article topics and locations include methane seeps as refugia; silver sources of Roman coinage; ear...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 1
Print Your Compass: Using 3D Printed Geological Compasses for Teaching and Research Purposes
Lyon Geology Laboratory—Earth, Planets and Environment (LGL-TPE), Université Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5276, Villeu...
GSA Today
Vol. 32 · No. 1
Discovery of an Entrapped Early Permian (ca. 299 Ma) Peri-Gondwanic Sliver in the Cretaceous Shyok Suture of Northern Ladakh, India: Diverse Implications
In a significant breakthrough, we report the first discovery of twenty-six genera and thirty-five species of Early Permi...